在过去20年中，随着臀部和身体形态的不断流行，身体意象的重要性以及所有的优点和缺点都在显微镜下被观察到。尽管对健康的身体形象有如此多的了解，但在过去的二十年中，健康这个词的含义有点被淡化了。本文揭示了这个确切的事实。我们不应该不惜任何代价让我们“理想化”的身体妨碍我们健康的身体。我们应该选择正确的，而不是采取简单的方法。一个良好的身体形象的获得以满足所有类别的健身和保持良好的应仔细追求。实现一个“健康”的身体是一项艰巨的任务，是我们今天面临的挑战。
Body Image
The title slide of the topic of body image carries a wonderful message. This message was undoubtedly my reaction after watching the complete video. The message was as clear as the day. “Don’t let “Ideal” get in the way of real health”. With the hip and happening trend of staying in shape gaining popularity in the last two decades, the importance of body image along with all of its perks and cons are under a microscopic view. Despite so much awareness about a healthy body image, the meaning of the word healthy has somewhat been diluted in these last two decades. The introductory slide sheds light on this exact fact. We should not, at any cost let our “idealistic” bodies get in the way of our healthy ones. Instead of taking the easy way out, we should opt for the hard one. The acquirement of a well toned body image that satisfies all the categories of staying fit and staying in shape should be pursued carefully.
Achieving a “healthy” body can be a difficult task with the challenges faced by all of us today. I agree with the speaker when she says that our lives involve challenges pertaining to the societal pressures, family pressures, challenges from work and countless other aspects. In the midst of all these challenges, achieving a healthy and clean body requires much effort and focus that is only achievable with an extra amount of will power and dedication. The point of “Superwoman Syndrome” raised in the presentation was very relatable. Women do try to be perfect associating inspiring activities of different people with themselves. They try to take a multitude of these inspiring features and include them in their lives, thus giving birth to the Superwoman Syndrome. This is not a very healthy activity because it creates an altogether different type of a woman. This woman would be frustrated and irritated if she is not able to witness the same level of results that she did on the other person. This would end in a degrading self esteem and we all know how harmful a deprecating self esteem can be. It is called a syndrome for a reason. An amalgam of multiple features might not always co-exist in the same person.
I completely agree with the guest speaker Andrea when she says that the body image is hugely connected with how one perceives oneself. Our self confidence and self esteem are two of the most important and decisive factors that decide our capability of influence over our own body image. Needless to say, ones perception of oneself and how people look towards one is the driving force behind the change in body image. Body image undoubtedly plays a tremendous part in boosting or draining our self esteem. History has seen many changes in perceptions of the people as far as the body image is concerned. What we call fashionable today might not be categorized as anything to close to fashion in some other time frame. The perceptions of body image have also changed from time to time with people focusing on the tiny waists in the civil war times to preferring a more full figured female figure in the late 1800s. There is no deniability in the fact that these trends have existed in the past; some of them even absurd and harmful to the physical body. For instance, the tiny waists of the pre-civil war clearly showcase how women used to treat their bodies back then. Fitting themselves in those kinds of dresses might require starvation which definitely does not come in the category of healthy eating habits. This is exactly the reason why we are discussing the preference of a healthy body over an ideal one. So that trends like these should not come back to trend. The need of the moment is to generate authentic information on achieving the healthy body instead of the “ideal” one. The healthy body would be devoid o
